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The La Paz County Attorney’s Office has issued a press release saying County Attorney Sam Vederman had “no choice but to intervene in Quartzsite” in the interests of implementing the will of the town’s voters. The press release refers to a quo warranto complaint filed in court by Vederman, on which this website reported earlier today. In it, he cites the intent of …

La Paz County Attorney Sam Vederman has filed a rare quo warranto (“by what authority”) complaint asking for an order from the Superior Court to immediately place Ed Foster and Mark Orgeron into office as Mayor and Council Member of the Town of Quartzsite, taking the places of Jose Lizarraga and Barbara Cowell who lost the election to Foster and …

La Paz County Recorder Shelly Baker, in a segment on Parker’s KLPZ 1380am radio this morning, said the claim that the records of deceased people were used to commit voter fraud in the recent Quartzsite election is an “urban legend”. A news story in the Arizona Republic quotes Quartzsite Vice Mayor Barbara Cowell as saying that “something is not right” …

A team of volunteers took to the Colorado River near Parker, AZ last Saturday with a large-scale trash collection effort at the Parker Tube Float. The swimsuit-wearing volunteers, many of whom are residents of Lake Havasu City, decided to do it in response to the excess trash that was found on the river after last year’s event. The group had …

Quartzsite Council Member-Elect Mark Orgeron has filed a legal complaint against the Town of Quartzsite Common Council challenging their refusal to seat him after he was elected to the Council in May. Orgeron alleges that the Council voted to disqualify him from taking office – even after some of them had been voted out – on the basis that he …

Dennis Wagner’s latest story on Quartzsite, published in this morning’s Arizona Republic, is currently trending at the top of the paper’s ‘Most Read’ list. The story carries the headline, ‘Quartzsite refuses to seat winning mayor’: Quartzsite residents who thought they voted in new municipal leadership found out otherwise last week when the Town Council decided not to seat Mayor-elect Ed …

A case against Quartzsite Town Attorney Martin Brannan is under review by the City of Phoenix after the city accepted the case from La Paz County Attorney Sam Vederman when he declared a conflict of interest. Vederman says the case against Brannan was investigated by the La Paz County Sheriff’s Office and sent to his office, but that the City …

DPS Press Release Arizona Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol officers took part in a Collision Reduction Detail during the highly traveled days of the Memorial Day weekend, Friday and Monday. Highway Patrol Officers patrolled Interstate 10 from milepost 0 to milepost 71 with one Highway Patrol Officer every 18 miles. On Saturday and Sunday, Highway Patrol Officers participated in …

Record or near-record high temps are in the forecast for today; the National Weather Service has issued an excessive heat warning like yesterday’s which will continue through today, from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. The average high for this day is 101 degrees. The highest recorded temp for this date was 111 degrees, recorded in 2001. The forecast today is …